But he never sought death himself.
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Brick is slowly drinking himself to death out of a convenient grief: his best friend, Skipper, killed himself, and he blames Margaret, who seduced Skipper to try to get him away from Brick and save their marriage.
Gary Doan is an entrepreneur who cheated death and now finds himself riding all the right trends.
Long after his death, Hawksmoor was himself at risk of being razed from history.
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As his assets were seized and sold at auction, Courbet drank himself to death.
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Kevorkian has already threatened to starve himself to death in prison if he is convicted.
After Gwynfor Evans threatened to starve himself to death, the government agreed to create a Welsh-language television channel.
In so doing, he became, by definition, unable to make rational decisions such as starving himself to death.
He has tried - unsuccessfully - to persuade the courts to allow him to starve himself to death.
The inquiry, in front of Sheriff Ruth Anderson QC, heard that Neve believed her father was going to "drink himself to death".
Despite his death, he is himself being put on trial for fraud.
In 1994's mountain-climbing thriller Cliffhanger, Sylvester Stallone did most of the apparently death-defying stunts himself, while suspended by safety wires and protected by nets.
But when Charles Burgoyne, a Port Monro entrepreneur, is discovered in his ransacked house on the verge of death, Cashin finds himself back doing serious police work.
Yet, at the time of his death, Camus found himself an outcast in Paris, snubbed by Jean-Paul Sartre and other left-bank intellectuals, and denounced for his freethinking refusal to yield to fashionable political views.
He is the only major Turkish politician to declare himself against the death penalty.
Historians believe Herod constructed an extravagant, 25m-long tomb for himself before his death.
Mr Hoare said he had kept the garden at his Longlevens home himself since the death of his wife Dorothy in 2007.
But instead Kevorkian administered the fatal "death potion" to Youk himself, inviting prosecutors to charge him with first-degree murder for the first time.
Although Mr Scargill has not commented publicly on his former adversary's death, Mr Capstick, himself a former miner, told ITV about his reaction.
These are now in the past: one democratic president of South Korea, the late Kim Dae-jung, was himself sentenced to death in 1980, before reprieve.
Just ten days before his death Picower tried to distance himself further from his onetime close associate by changing his will and cutting out Madoff, who had been listed as an executor.
Harry always had a strong Christian Faith but said he struggled for a while after the death of his friends, believing himself agnostic at one point.
Blair has announced a judicial inquiry into Kelly's death and promised he will give evidence himself.
He entered the monastery, probably on his wife's death, leaving Nicholas to fend for himself.
The death of Mr Calipari - who threw himself over Ms Sgrena to protect her from the gunfire - caused public outrage in Italy and intensified pressure on Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi to pull Italian troops out of Iraq.
His unwavering courage and steadfast devotion to his U.S. and Afghan comrades, in the face of almost certain death, reflect a great credit upon himself and upheld the highest traditions of the Marine Corps and the United States Naval Service.
The incident echoes the death of a Tunisian who set fire to himself as a protest in 2011, triggering revolution.
Peter Taylor said he blamed himself for his mother's death, but added that the number of allegations made against companies showed "it was not an isolated incident".
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